AZmed Secures €15 Million to Shape the Future of Medical Imaging with AI

"We are thrilled to have obtained this funding to advance AZmed to the forefront of the medical imaging industry"

27-Feb-2024 - AZmed, a European MedTech startup, has secured €15 million in Series A funding. The operation includes investors such as Maison Worms, Techstars, and Teampact Ventures. The investment supports AZmed's overarching objective of shaping the future of medical imaging with artificial intelligence by ...

AI-supported image analysis: metrics determine quality

New online tool helps to select the right algorithm

14-Feb-2024 - How well do the algorithms used in the AI-supported analysis of medical images perform their respective tasks? This depends to a large extent on the metrics used to evaluate their performance. An international consortium led by scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the ...

Analysis of Microscopic Images: New Open-Source Software Makes AI Models Lighter & Greener

No special knowledge required

26-Jan-2024 - Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an indispensable component in the analysis of microscopic data. However, while AI models are becoming better and more complex, the computing power and associated energy consumption are also increasing. Researchers at the Leibniz-Institut für Analytische ...

Machine learning boosts search for new materials

Scientists have developed deep-learning models that can sift through the massive amounts of data generated by X-ray diffraction techniques

29-Dec-2023 - Scientists from theUniversity of Rochestersay deep learning can supercharge a technique that is already the gold standard for characterizing new materials. In annpj Computational Materialspaper, the interdisciplinary team describes models they developed to better leverage the massive amounts ...

Global guidelines to improve the quality of microscopy images in scientific publications

21-Sep-2023 - As part of a global initiative, researchers have drawn up guidelines for the publication of microscopy images in scientific outlets. The criteria, summarized in the form of checklists, form the basis for ensuring that published images in the field of life sciences and medicine are intelligible ...

Metallographic image analysis in second

TGFS invests in start-up for AI-based software for microstructure analysis

21-Sep-2023 - TGFS Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen announces its investment in MiViA GmbH. MiViA is a spin-off of the Institute for Metal Forming at TU Bergakademie Freiberg. At the interface between materials and AI expertise, the founding team has developed mivia.ai, a product to accelerate and standardize ...

AI with infrared imaging enables precise colon cancer diagnostics

Artificial intelligence and infrared imaging automatically classify tumours and are faster than previous methods

16-Feb-2023 - The immense progress in the field of therapy options over the past years has significantly improved the chances of cure for patients with colon cancer. However, these new approaches, such as immunotherapies, require precise diagnosis so that they can be specifically tailored to the individual. ...

Scientific image analysis for everyone

New software enables automated analysis of image data without programming knowledge

01-Feb-2023 - The software JIPipe was developed by scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI) and significantly simplifies the analysis of images generated in research. Users can create flowcharts according to their application needs and thus perform ...

How to tell if that plastic bottle or bag has recycled material in it

27-Sep-2022 - To encourage more recycling, the U.K. taxes single-use plastic products containing less than 30% recycled material. But aside from a manufacturer’s word, there isn’t an easy way to verify this composition. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering have developed a ...

Diagnoses with Deepflash

Microscopic images of tissue sections can now be analyzed much more easily

11-Jun-2021 - Information technology can make life easier in many areas – including research. In medicine, for example, it is still standard practice to evaluate microscopy images of tissue sections by hand. This is used, for example, to assess how many cancer cells are in a lymph node. "You often sit in a ...